Server Management Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Server Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Server Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 86 121
Rank change year-on-year -24 +35 -3
Contract jobs citing Server Management 4 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.23% 0.32% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.34% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £450 £377 £458
25th Percentile £469 £379 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £390 £605
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -35.54% +5.22%
75th Percentile £559 £419 £608
90th Percentile £594 £453 -
South East median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Server Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,506 1,172 1,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.70% 92.94% 91.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,001 646 1,003
10th Percentile £284 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £407 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £606
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 34 97
10th Percentile £19.19 £26.08 £20.36
25th Percentile £35.00 £43.69 £42.50
Median hourly rate £81.50 £61.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% +4.23% -8.77%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.39 £67.81
90th Percentile £106.00 £84.25 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £46.87
% change year-on-year -44.11% -3.99% +4.16%

Server Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Server Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Server Management job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Server Management
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Server Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Server Management

Server Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Server Management in Berkshire

Server Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Server Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Server Management

Server Management
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Management within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham -33 3 £475 -
Reading -8 1 £605 +59.21% 1
Server Management
South East

Server Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) FTP
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) VMware